ELS Language Centers

Daiva Berzinskas

Email:daivaberz@gmail.com

 

Sequential/ Global

 

Are You Addressing the Cultural and Individual Learning Styles in Your Classroom???

Addressing individual learning styles of students is particularly important when teaching ESL. Get to know the learning styles of your students by administering this interactive quiz from Edutopia to find out!

 

Learning Styles:

Sensory-Intuitive                     Sequential-Global

Visual-Verbal                          Inductive-Deductive

Active-Reflective

 

What’s Your Learning Style?: http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-learning-styles-quiz?gclid=CJ3puZKmgqICFQqbnAodBUlbGQ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Language Shock and Culture Shock – Are Your Students Afflicted?

 

Moving to a new country and the frustration associated with learning a new language are common for many international students. These types of shock can greatly influence student learning.

 

Know the signs!

 

Language Shock – Frustration learners face when learning a new language. Language shock develops when ELLs feel too pressure to learn the L2 language in too short a period  of time.

 

Culture Shock – Emotional reactions to living in a new culture and learning a new language. Know the three stages: 1) Euphoria; 2) Culture Shock; 3) Adaptation.

 

Talk about culture shock in your classroom. Check out this website from eslflow.com for some useful lessons: http://www.eslflow.com/interculturalcommunication.html

 

For more information visit kidshealth.org : http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/emotions/culture_shock.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sensory\ Intuitive

Visual\

Verbal

Reflective\ Reflective

 

Inductive\ Deductive

 

ELS students…

Where are they from?

 

Gabon

Cameroon

Saudi Arabia

Libya

Kuwait

Brazil

Colombia

Venezuela

Peru

Japan

South Korea

Vietnam

China

Taiwan

Thailand

China

Russia

Mexico

Switzerland

France

 

What is Learning Style?

How learners acquire, retain, and retrieve information.

Are you meeting the needs of your students’ individual and cultural learning styles?

 

 

 

 

Active

Inductive\ Deductive

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